Full-Time
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Finance Systems, Assets & Lease Management
Updated on 9/3/2026
Anthropic
5,001-10,000 employees
Develops reliable, interpretable AI systems
Compensation Overview
$205k - $270k/yr
H1B Sponsorship Available
Seattle, WA, USA + 1 more
More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Staff must work from an office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more office time.
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- Have 8+ years of experience in finance systems, enterprise resource planning implementation, or business systems analysis roles, including at least 5 years of hands-on Workday Financials experience with Business Assets, lease management, inventory, or asset management software.
- Possess deep expertise in Workday Business Assets configuration, including asset books, depreciation methods, capitalization thresholds, construction-in-progress tracking, mass asset transactions, transfers, and disposals.
- Have hands-on experience with lease accounting under ASC 842 in major lease management platforms such as CoStar, FinQuery/LeaseQuery, or Visual Lease.
- Possess a strong understanding of fixed asset accounting processes, including capitalization policies, useful life determination, impairment assessment, and asset-level reconciliation to the general ledger, along with an understanding of SOX and compliance requirements.
- Have experience managing high-value technology infrastructure assets, such as data centers, compute hardware, and networking equipment, and understand the operational realities of tracking physical assets at scale.
- Be skilled at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions and bridging finance stakeholders with technical implementation teams.
- Have experience with full enterprise resource planning implementation lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare.
- Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with finance leadership, accounting teams, and technical partners.
- Be comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements and tight timelines.
- Have a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Have a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets and own configuration of asset books, asset classes, useful lives, depreciation profiles, capitalization rules, and construction-in-progress tracking; drive design decisions, validate configurations, and ensure business requirements are met.
- Own end-to-end lease administration and lease accounting across Workday and dedicated lease management platforms for real estate and infrastructure or compute leases, including lease classification, right-of-use assets and lease liabilities, amortization schedules, modifications and remeasurements, and ASC 842 disclosure reporting.
- Partner with Compute, Data Infrastructure, Procurement, Accounting, and other stakeholders to manage high-value technology infrastructure assets from procurement through capitalization, transfers, and retirement.
- Design componentization, tagging, and tracking approaches for data center and compute hardware at scale, with asset records structured to meet international regulatory, statutory, and cross-border compliance requirements.
- Support the broader Workday Financials platform as a secondary focus by ensuring financial data model alignment for asset and lease transactions and partnering with consultants on future-phase or net-new implementations affecting assets and leases.
- Build and maintain asset rollforwards, depreciation forecasts, lease disclosure schedules, and reconciliations; support month-end and quarter-end close activities for fixed assets and leases and manage defects and data-quality issues.
- Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and performance service-level agreements.
- Partner with Real Estate and Workplace, Legal, Financial Planning and Analysis, and Tax on the lease pipeline and capital planning.
- Work with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive ongoing expansion and adoption of the Workday platform, including biannual releases, and identify opportunities for process improvement and automation across the asset and lease lifecycle.
- CPA certification or a strong background in accounting or finance, with understanding of GAAP and IFRS reporting requirements, including IFRS 16 lease accounting.
- Experience with lease portfolios from dedicated platforms such as FinQuery/LeaseQuery, Visual Lease, or CoStar.
- Experience assessing embedded leases within cloud, hosting, and service contracts under ASC 842.
- Experience with Workday financial data model design, Prism Analytics, or Accounting Center for asset and lease journal automation.
- Technical familiarity with the Claude suite, SQL, Workday Web Services Query Language or Report-as-a-Service reporting, BigQuery, Workday Studio/Core Connector, and Python.
- Knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal controls for fixed asset and lease accounting cycles.
- Familiarity with Workday Procurement and Supply Chain, including purchase-order-to-asset flows and supplier invoice integration points.
- Prior experience at high-growth technology companies scaling toward initial public offering readiness, ideally with significant capital expenditure programs.
Anthropic focuses on AI research to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its main product, Claude, is an AI assistant designed to handle tasks at any scale for clients across industries, delivered through deployment and licensing along with specialized AI R&D services. Claude works by combining natural language processing, human feedback, reinforcement learning, and interpretability techniques to produce a capable, controllable AI assistant that can assist with a wide range of tasks. The company differentiates itself from competitors by prioritizing safety, transparency, and controllability—emphasizing reliability, interpretability of model behavior, and user-controlled steerability in its AI systems. Anthropic’s goal is to make AI systems that people can trust and efficiently use to improve operations and decision-making across sectors.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$182.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Project Glasswing found over 10,000 critical vulnerabilities by June 2, 2026.
- Anthropic disclosed annualized revenue above $65 billion in July 2026, signaling explosive demand.
- September 1, 2026 pricing cuts for cache reads boost agentic API adoption and retention.
What critics are saying
- Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement, approved July 20, 2026, invites more suits.
- Late-September 2026 IPO pressure exposes weak multiples if growth decelerates after listing.
- Heavy compute commitments and chip-lease debt create existential financing risk if demand softens.
What makes Anthropic unique
- Claude Security and Project Glasswing anchor Anthropic’s enterprise security moat in 2026.
- Anthropic pairs frontier-model capability with explicit safety branding, unlike OpenAI’s consumer-first posture.
- Multi-cloud distribution across AWS, Google, Microsoft, Lambda, and Nscale reduces single-vendor dependence.
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Flexible Work Hours
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Parental Leave
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↑ 2%Broadcom could capture a $40 billion opportunity from Anthropic's growing compute needs, according to Macquarie analyst Arthur Lai. This comes as concerns mount over Google developing more chips internally, potentially threatening Broadcom's custom silicon business. The stock has fallen approximately 24% from its all-time high. However, Lai suggests many concerns may already be priced in, creating an attractive entry point. In April, Anthropic partnered with Google and Broadcom to secure next-generation TPU capacity for training its Claude AI models. Broadcom's AI semiconductor revenue surged 221% year-over-year to $16.7 billion in fiscal Q3 2026. Management projects AI semiconductor revenue could reach $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and potentially $230 billion in fiscal 2028. The Anthropic partnership could provide crucial revenue visibility whilst strengthening Broadcom's position in custom AI silicon and networking.
Black Duck has joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing, an industry initiative aimed at securing critical software infrastructure using advanced AI for defensive cybersecurity. The application security company will apply Mythos, Anthropic's AI system, across its full security portfolio. This will combine AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery with remediation workflows, risk-based prioritisation, and compliance-driven governance. "AI is transforming the economics and speed of vulnerability discovery and exploit development," said Dipto Chakravarty, Black Duck's Chief Product & Technology Officer. He explained that pairing Mythos with Black Duck's existing capabilities will enable faster risk reduction whilst maintaining the transparency and auditability required by enterprise security teams. Black Duck specialises in application security, combining deterministic analysis with AI reasoning to identify and fix security issues in code written by developers, generated by AI, or assembled from open source.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have asked major credit rating agencies to grant investment-grade status to OpenAI and Anthropic upon going public, despite neither company turning a profit, the Financial Times reported. OpenAI posted a $20.9 billion operating loss on $13.1 billion revenue in 2025. Anthropic doesn't expect to break even until 2028, with OpenAI targeting 2030. The investment-grade designation would allow pension funds and insurers to buy their bonds. It would also terminate Nvidia's guarantee of up to $105 billion in lease obligations for OpenAI's Ohio campus. Rating analysts currently describe both labs as speculative-grade and loss-making. When SpaceX received investment-grade ratings after its June IPO, its bonds traded near junk pricing within days. Anthropic could list in late September, whilst OpenAI targets 2027.
Interactive Brokers held $182.4 billion in uninvested client cash at the end of June, up 27% year over year, and this figure grew to $185.6 billion by August. The automated global broker earns interest on this cash by investing it in short-term US government securities whilst paying clients a rate half a percentage point below the federal funds rate. Net interest income rose 23% year over year to $1.06 billion in the second quarter, representing more than half of total net revenues of $1.9 billion. The growth came from larger balances rather than margins, which actually narrowed to 1.93% from 2.07%. Anthropic's potential IPO, rumoured to arrive soon with a possible $2 trillion valuation, could provide clients with an opportunity to deploy some of this cash.
Anthropic has reportedly secured a $35 billion cloud deal with Lambda for 350 MW of capacity at Hut 8's Beacon Point campus in Texas, marking its ninth major compute corridor. The arrangement highlights Nvidia's dual role as both GPU supplier and data centre landlord, allowing it to extract value at multiple levels. The deal supports Anthropic's $65 billion annualised revenue run rate but deepens its reliance on Nvidia's ecosystem. Anthropic has diversified across nine corridors, including commitments to AWS (5GW), Google/Broadcom (5GW), Microsoft/Nvidia ($30 billion), Fluidstack ($50 billion), Nscale ($45 billion), Volta ($10 billion), AMD ($5 billion), and SpaceX (300MW). This infrastructure strategy reflects a shift where GPU suppliers increasingly control both hardware and physical environments, positioning themselves as compute landlords.